Religious cosmologies

thumb|upright=0.9|right|Image of a fiery purgatory by Ludovico Carracci. Top: Christ directing, with Mary and interceding saints. Middle: Angel showing a soul the intercessors. Bottom: souls being purged with various attitudes.

symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it

thumb|alt=Diagram of a circle divided into two sides|Dualism divides a domain or phenomenon into two separate principles or kinds.

350px|right|thumb|The runes a:miþkarþi, Old Norse á Miðgarði, meaning "in Midgard" – "in Middle Earth", on the [[Fyrby Runestone (Sö 56) in Södermanland, Sweden.]]

6th-century BCE Greek mythographer and proto-philosopher

creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity

thumb|Biblical text on a synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic: "HaShem kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up." ([[1 Samuel 2:6)]]

philosophical concept regarding infinite continuance of the universe

Emanationism is a theory in the cosmology or cosmogony of certain religious and philosophical systems, that posits the concept of emanation. According to this theory, emanation, from the Latin emanare meaning "to flow from" or "to pour forth or out of", is the mode by which all existing things are derived from a 'first reality', or first principle. In the emanationist concept all things are derived from this first reality or perfect God, by consecutive steps of degradation, to a lower degree of this first reality or God: at every consecutive step the emanating beings are less pure, less perfec

concept in several religions and mythologies

term used in the Hebrew Bible

spiritual and philosophical book that originated in Chicago sometime between 1924 and 1955

world center in some religions or philosophies; connection between Heaven and Earth

description of the universe in Buddhist texts

explanation of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe, from a religious perspective

account of the universe and its laws by the ancient North Germanic peoples

thumb|right|upright=1.4|The Paradiso (Dante)#The Empyrean|Divine Comedys Empyrean, illustrated by [[Gustave Doré]]

legend

psalm

account of the universe and its laws in the Bible

work by Cicero

Arabish lament

worship of stars and other heavenly bodies as deities

6th–7th century Syriac Christian text providing a theological history from the creation of Adam to the coming of Christ, presenting Adam and the patriarchs as prefigurations of Christ and incorporating local Mesopotamian traditions

attempt to estimate the age of Earth or the universe through religious creation myths

Japanese mythology about the creation of the world and of Japan

oldest surviving literary text in the world

Belief that the current age will be replaced by a better world, age, or paradise

description of the universe in Jain texts

two fundamental and often opposing concepts

Gavaevodata ('''') is the Avestan language name of the primordial bovine of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology, one of Ahura Mazda's six primordial material creations and the mythological progenitor of all beneficent animal life.

pre-Columbian Mesoamerican (Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec &c.) cosmological motif embodying the cardinal directions, connecting the underworld and the sky with the terrestrial realm; dates from the Mid/Late Formative periods

expression of the problem of infinite regress

lagash cylinders

Nahui Ollin is a 16th-century concept in Aztec/Mexica cosmology with a variety of meanings. Nahui translates to "four," and Ollin translates to "movement" or "motion." Ollin was primarily portrayed in Aztec codices as two interlaced lines, each portrayed with two central ends. Nahui Ollin has been used as an educational framework, particularly in social justice and ethnic studies institutions.

Beginnings in Hellenistic astrology

thumb|Classification of the six eternal substances

sumerian creation myth

Sumerian creation myth

Sumerian creation myth

Sufi approach to cosmology

astronomy written in Hebrew or by Hebrew speakers

thumb|250px|Sage Raikva teaches Ātman (Hinduism)|Atma Vidya King [[Janasuruti]] Raikva, the poor unknown cart-driver, appears in Chapter IV of the Chandogya Upanishad of Muktika canon where it is learnt that he knew That which was knowable and needed to be known, he knew That from which all this had originated. Along with Uddalaka, Prachinshala, Budila, Sarkarakshaya and Indradyumna, who respectively held earth, heaven, water, space and air to be the substrata of all things, and many others, Raikva was one of the leading Cosmological and Psychological philosophers of the Upanishads. He imparte